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Title Adpositions : pragmatic, semantic and syntactic perspectives / edited by Dennis Kurzon, Silvia Adler
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 307 pages) : illustrations
Series Typological studies in language ; v. 74
Typological studies in language ; v. 74
Contents Adpositions; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication; Table of contents; Introduction; The contributors; French compound prepositions, prepositional locutions and prepositional phrases in the scope of th; "Over the hills and far away" or "far away over the hills": English place adverb phrases and place; Structures with omitted prepositions: Semantic and pragmatic motivations; A closer look at the Hebrew construct and free locative PPs: The analysis of milocatives; Pragmatics of prepositions: A study of the French connectives pour le coup and du coup
Summary This book is a collection of articles which deal with adpositions in a variety of languages and from a number of perspectives. Not only does the book cover what is traditionally treated in studies from a European and Semitic orientation - prepositions, bu
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Prepositions.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Postpositions.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Postpositions
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Prepositions
Form Electronic book
Author Kurzon, Dennis
Adler, Silvia.
ISBN 9789027290243
9027290245
1282105124
9781282105126
9786612105128
6612105127